Undertakers ask the government to allow them to update their impractical uniform, 1910 bit.ly/1BdibD5

He shoots his girlfriend in the head in the subway because she refuses his advances, 1901 bit.ly/1miQAyK

Yacht crew abandoned by Jacques Lebaudy, founder of the “Empire of the Sahara,” 1903 (Pt 1) bit.ly/14agFHm

Carnies try to kidnap a school girl but she fights them off and they flee, 1911 bit.ly/1QQtmxo

Fire in the #ParisMetro in 1903; users waste time asking for refund instead of evacuating bit.ly/1KceHXY

Tramway jerk starts; father and baby fall off the second floor; baby dies, 1901 bit.ly/22yHajQ

Crash between steamboat, ferryboat and towboat towing barge in the Seine, 1897 #cluster bit.ly/1zOpPXw

Escheresque illustration of priest visiting a juvenile detention center in 1896 #panopticon bit.ly/1vhGbkW

Elderly man stumbles up to his lodger for help saying that three burglars cut his throat 1896 bit.ly/1JKpPej

Gorgeous giant octopus attack, 1912 bit.ly/1SruKFZ

Lol! German Emperor Wilhelm II “pokes imperial eye” after minor incident on his yacht, 1897 bit.ly/1Ai97ie

“Death to the ogress!” The crowd tries to lynch serial child murderess Jeanne Weber, 1908 bit.ly/1PqSvLu

Titanic April 15, 1912 bit.ly/1OBWKaf

1900 pharmacist loses a small claims case against his neighbors; shoots the judge bit.ly/1vWXz2l

Woman picks up loaded gun to secure it; accidentally fires it into head of guest, 1898 bit.ly/1DjirGz

Collapse at the circus, 1901 bit.ly/1J8AORG

A 1914 movie operator named Fritz Schindler is mauled by a lion while filming in Nairobi bit.ly/1AeW13a

Antisemitic, anti-Dreyfus sympathizers throw bundles of food to their besieged friends, 1899 bit.ly/1DEhKmZ

In 1894, patience runs out with anarchists. These 6 tried to kill a Spanish general … bit.ly/1DjCkwG

1913 German police watch tango performance as training to enforce new law forbidding the dance bit.ly/13nPJD5